HOWTO:Suppress Formatting Characters In Empty Report Records

Command Line Shortcut: ' User Permissions Level: All Product Level: All Describes the procedure modifying a report to hide formatting characters when padding a cable report with empty records.

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Before You Start

This How To assumes that you are using a report that accesses the CablesCollection.

General Information

Without taking the following steps, if you pad a report with empty records you will see any formatting characters displayed in the padded records as follows:

Overview

We will need to create a formatting rule that can be applied to the various controls on the page that we want to hide when empty

1. Create our formatting rule.
2. Apply it to each control that we want to hide when empty
3. Set the detail area to Keep Together